Metabolic Melodies

I was cleaning out the bookmarks on my laptop, when – no, that’s not true. I was clicking on all the bookmarks, noticed that 70% are now dead links, and just left them there, when I came across “Kevin Ahern’s Wildly Popular Metabolic Melodies”. I must have bookmarked it long ago, and completely forgot about it. Kevin Ahern teaches at Oregon State University, and writes songs about the biochemistry of metabolism. He’s recorded most of them, and they’re all on the site. Some are also on YouTube, including this one about gluconeogenesis, sung to the tune of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious:

Eva Amsen is a writer, science communicator and blogger. She has been writing about science and scientists in art/culture/life since 2005, both on this blog and for other sites and publications.
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